NameThatPlant.net: Digitaria villosa

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/10/25):
Digitaria villosa FAMILY Poaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Digitaria villosa FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Digitaria villosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)

Digitaria filiformis var. villosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-75-001b:

Digitaria filiformis var. villosa FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)

Digitaria villosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Syntherisma villosa

COMMON NAME:
Shaggy Crabgrass

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/10/25):
Digitaria villosa FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Digitaria villosa FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Digitaria villosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Digitaria filiformis var. villosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-75-001b:
Digitaria filiformis var. villosa FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Digitaria villosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Syntherisma villosa

5026

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, dry pine flatwoods, glades, dry prairies, dry hammocks, dunes, sandy fields, roadsides, other disturbed habitats, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Carolina Coastal Plain (uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

map
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall

Inflorescence composed of 2-7 ascending spikelike racemes

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall?
Grain

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

"Common names should be written in lower case unless part of the name is proper and then the first letter of only the proper term is capitalized. For example, sugar maple would be written with lower case letters while Japanese maple would be written with the capital J. This is the accepted method for writing common names in scientific circles and should be familiar to the student. In this text, and many others, common names are written with capital first letters. This was done to set the name off from the rest of the sentence and make it more evident to the reader. Actually in modern horticultural writings the capitalized common name predominates." — Michael Dirr, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants

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